Pool Time
I invite you into the pool ~~ the word pool. Poet Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge was the coach of my first jumps into word pools. She is the author of “poemcrazy: freeing your life with words.” It’s a guide I’ve loved for more than a decade. In poemcrazy she presents the idea of someone tossing words your way.
[cramp drought funnel Grrr luscious persevere quandary swamp]
Now, write those eight words up into a poem. Sprinkle in any order Go! I invite you to read how I arranged those words on the page in my poem, “What to do with a drifted stick in winter?”
Appreciations for Susan's teachings & for MoSt's continued celebration of word pools. MoSt provided the pool list for my poem. Some say word pools are a shield against blank page syndrome, aka writer's block. I love that they are a romp for the mind. Susan G. Wooldridge http://susanwooldridge.com MoSt Poetry Center https://www.mostpoetry.org ^^^^
This unlikely rose, captured by my camera & haiku words, arrived because my hubby & I took a neighborhood walk & he directed my sky-watching eye down, to this surprise.
A different poem, celebrating the power of written words, “Lucky” is published in the recent 2021 CADENCE, Florida State Poets Association Anthology 39, below.
SNAKEBIRD 2021, a chapbook from Anhinga Press [below] also accepted one from me, on creativity, “Only Your Recent Works”, as did the BIRMINGHAM ARTS JOURNAL summer issue 2021. I also am pleased to share other poem publications of 2021. DIG pubbed the above rose ekphrastic haiku in its informative disability news website newsletter & it also popped into into a sweet sticker you see at top sent to me by poet Margaret Simon. I’m honored my poem “Shore Good Friday’ is wrapped up within the MoSt Poetry Center’s New Year Poetry Challenge 2020-2021 chapbook.
Appreciations to all the chapbook readers, editors & designers.
Some great poem links are further down this page.
DIG June 2021 newsletter – haiku with foto [to be added here]
MoSt Poetry [Modesto-Stanislas] Center NYPC 12 New Year’s Poetry Challenge 2020-2021 chapbook
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My pubbed poems also include: “Fish Fandangle” in FRESH FISH, from Studio Art Quilt Associates. “Shore Good Friday,” with MoSt Poetry Center’s chapbook, NYPC12. “Beach Meal 1820,”with Milkweed Editions’ A Literary Field Guide. An awarded poem is “Surfing,” Florida State Poetry Association, Honorable from poet Tiel Aisha Ansari & She Sang Promise, prose poem story leading off with poem stanzas.
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ℙ𝕠𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕃𝕚𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕖
______________________________ is hereby acknowledged as a
poem maker & is entitled to practice the craft diligently.
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Florida State Poetry Association
& also
Dictionary for a Better World: Poem Quotes Anecdotes from A to Z (2 authors)
Handbook of Poetic Forms (T & W Collaborative)
Shape of Content (artist Ben Sahn)
Writing a Poem Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them
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In Covid-19 times April 2020 still was Poetry Month. A delicious appreciation for her compilation of April events, Jama Kim Rattigan/Alphabet Soup
in #VisitTallahassee, our #CouncilonCulture&Arts displays local poets on windowpanes in April+ our @BigBendPoets&Writers along with @100ThousandPoets creates #SpeakfortheEarth an international April worldwide poetry gathering. Bookseedstudio participates in this.
April 2021 Poetry Month Hosts each Friday:::: /2 Mary Lee at A Year of Reading::::: 9 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference:::::16 Jama at Jama’s Alphabet Soup ::::23 Catherine at Reading to the Core ::::30 Matt at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
POETRY FRIDAY/ Poetry Friday hosts during April 2020
April
3 Heidi at my juicy little universe
10 Amy at The Poem Farm
17 Molly at Nix the Comfort Zone
24 Christie at Wondering and Wandering
2020 Writers April Poetry Month – thanks to Margaret Simon
1 Donna Smith at Mainely Write
2 Irene Latham at Live Your Poem
3 Jone MacCulloch at Deo Writer
4 Liz Steinglass
5 Buffy Silverman
6 Kay McGriff at A Journey Through the Pages
7 Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
8 Tara Smith at Going to Walden
9 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
10 Matt Forrest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm, and Rhyme
11 Janet Fagel, hosted at Reflections on the Teche
12 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
13 Kat Apel at Kat Whiskers
14 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
15 Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
16 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
17 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
18 Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading
19 Tabatha at Opposite of Indifference
20 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities
21 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
22 Julieanne Harmatz at To Read, To Write, To Be
23 Ruth at There is No Such Thing as a God-forsaken Town
24 Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wandering
25 Amy at The Poem Farm
26 Dani Burtsfield at Doing the Work That Matters
27 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
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29 Fran Haley at lit bits and pieces
30 Michelle Kogan
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Writing During 2019 April Poetry Month
April Progressive Poem Makers
1 Liz at Elizabeth Steinglass
2 Jane at Raincity Librarian
3 Laura at Writing the World for Kids
4 Michelle at Today’s Little Ditty
5 Jan at bookseedstudio
6 Irene at Live Your Poem
7 Linda at TeacherDance
8 Janet F. at Live Your Poem
9 Ramona at Pleasures from the Page
10 Matt at Radio, Rhythm and Rhyme
11 Brenda at Friendly Fairy Tales
12 Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink
13 Linda at A Word Edgewise
14 Heidi at my juicy little universe
15 Donna at Mainely Write
16 Sarah at Sarah Grace Tuttle
17 Ruth at There is no such thing as a Godforsaken town
18 Christie at Wondering and Wandering
19 Michelle at Michelle Kogan
20 Linda at Write Time
21 April at Teaching Authors
22 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference
23 Amy at The Poem Farm
24 Mary Lee at A Year of Reading
25 Kiesha at Whispers from the Ridge
26 Renee at No Water River
27 Buffy at Buffy’s Blog
28 Kat at Kat’s Whiskers
29 Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge
30 Doraine at Dori Reads
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